Mysterious, alluring, unique Moroccan style in landscape design, architecture, interior creates a completely unique atmosphere. Entering the house, made in the Moroccan style, you seem to find yourself in an oriental fairy tale, touching the African historical secrets of the past centuries.
In the Moroccan style, the art traditions of Mauritania and Phenicia, France and Africa, Spain and Greece, and various accessories of other countries intersect in an interesting way. This style contains the brightest colors, carved details and intricate ornaments. At the same time, the Moroccan direction is constantly developing, increasing its potential with new ideas in design art.
Features of architecture for the Moroccan style are many arched openings and simple and fanciful forms, colonnades and galleries, terraces and balconies. The land plot near the house is made in the landscape of the subtropical climate of a southern country, therefore, aloe and Kalanchoe bushes, cacti, palms and lianas will be appropriate:
Walkways in the yard are usually laid out with paving slabs or paving stones:
As finishing and building materials for decorating the facade of a building, as in all ethnic styles, clay, stone, tiles, metal are used here:
No Moroccan home is complete without patios. This is an old tradition of Moroccan architecture. The flooring is necessarily decorated with tiles; ceramic floor vases are displayed throughout the courtyard. Comfortable and cozy furniture, ponds with fountains and an open hearth are conducive to relaxation in such patios:
Features of the interior in Moroccan style
Since this style initially involves a combination of other directions, designers, organizing the interior of the dwelling in such an ethnic direction, boldly combine modern European trends and ancient folk traditions. This makes it possible to create a versatile, extravagant and comfortable interior in one room.
The living room can combine traditional style accents (mosaic walls, floors, marble details) and modern comfortable furniture:
Another important element for Moroccans in the house is carpets with the most intricate patterns, bright colors. Carpets are used to decorate the floor in the living room, bedroom, and dining room:
Color palette
The Moroccan-style color scheme of the house can be described as an extravaganza of rich, bright colors. The dominant colors are blue, turquoise, blue. Purple, lilac, red and their shades can often be seen in interiors:
Yellow, orange, golden, brown, terracotta are used as typical colors typical of the African desert:
White is emphasized as a symbol of purity and longevity. Ceiling and walls or furniture can be made in this color:
Decoration Materials
For interior decoration, in addition to ceramic tiles and traditional stone, various types of textured plaster with a smooth or grainy texture are perfect:
In one room, mosaic tiles, elements and wood are perfectly combined:
Many wrought and carved wooden elements distinguish the Moroccan style from other African trends. The curly balustrades that enclose the spiral staircase and the balcony inside the house look bright:
Traditional Moroccan-style relaxation furniture - wooden with intricate carvings, no sharp corners. Soft fabric upholstery, usually satin or velvet:
It should be noted that the Moroccan style is divided into simple laconic (rustic) and lush, luxurious (palace). In one room, pieces of furniture of these two directions can be harmoniously combined. For example, wooden islands, dressers and buffets with a brush effect look great in the kitchen:
And in the dining room there is an expensive granite or marble finish, furniture made of expensive woods contrasts well with the rough wooden flooring:
Decor details and accessories
Ceramic dishes decorated with paintings or mosaics, metal jugs and trays, painted chests and boxes, forged chandeliers are the main attributes of the Moroccan interior:
Jacquard textiles are more recent additions to the Moroccan style, but they work great together:
An exotic panel made of natural stone of intricate shape and amazing plot highlights the originality and unusualness of the interior:
In conclusion, it should be said that the eclectic Moroccan style is suitable for people with creative impulses who love variety, space and bright colors.
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A private home project called B95 in Calgary, Canada, by Beyond Homes and Building Bloc Design. The residence attracts attention with its individuality and bright colors. The facade of the building has a contrasting cladding.
The center blocks are finished in black and gray corrugated metal siding and are tied together with wood siding. During the construction and decoration of the premises, natural, environmentally friendly materials were used, including quartz, metal, Moroccan tiles, and various woods.
Moroccan style and modern minimalism are organically intertwined in the interior of a modern two-storey house with an area of \u200b\u200b260 square meters. A spacious social area is located on the ground floor of the house. High ceilings up to 3 meters, large windows on the entire wall make the premises bright and sunny.
White walls and ceilings, warm wood floors contrast with a dark metal wall with a fireplace, bringing dynamism and depth to the interior. The bright color of the sofa, lots of colored pillows, designer lamps make the interior colorful and festive. An elegant staircase, closed with an openwork metal lattice, leads to the second floor, where a private area is equipped.
An abundance of decor items that fill the atmosphere with African and Arabic motifs - handmade carpets, various figures made of wood, an animal skull, original textiles - bring oriental harmony into the interior, create a sophisticated exoticism.
Riada (translated from Arabic means "garden") is a traditional Moroccan house or palace. Riads usually have a garden patio from where natural light enters all the rooms of the house. This form of buildings came from Ancient Rome, namely from the city of Volubilis, since the reign of the Idrisid dynasty. The main task in this design was to "hide" the privacy and women in accordance with the concepts of Islam. Later, after conquering Spain in the 11th century, the Almoravids sent Christian and Jewish artisans to Morocco to work on the construction of monuments.
Ancient houses filled with antiques, which were used by the most noble families of the country who lived in these palaces. Houses in which the spirit of luxury and wealth reigns, but not the golden luxury of the palaces of the Russian nobility, but the luxuriously refined atmosphere of the Maghreb, attention and respect for the people living in them. The families who own riads treat tourists like real viziers. Starting from preparing the desired dishes to being accompanied on walks in the old town. It is noteworthy that this attitude does not depend on whether a person lives in an expensive room or in a cheaper one.
The traditional Arab house was meant to be united under its roof for three or four generations of one family. Usually such a house was built around a patio, which was a source of daylight. In the homes of noble families, this courtyard became a real Andalusian patio, in the center of which a fountain was installed. A common element for all riads is also a square or rectangular garden, around which three or four wings of the house were built, with a fountain or small pool in the center.
The courtyard, illuminated by the sun's rays, is usually surrounded on three or four sides by a covered gallery with columns, which overlook the salons and living rooms of the first and second floors. Riada rarely has one floor and even more rarely more than two residential ones.
The inward orientation of the riads allowed to hide privacy from prying eyes, and also protected from bad weather, which is why this type of building became popular in Morocco. All the windows of the riads were small and overlooked only the inner garden, and the outer walls were made of adobe bricks - this structure of the building found support from Islam and was associated with the female hejab. The patio was often planted with four orange or lemon trees, and the walls of the riads were usually decorated with tadelakt stucco and mosaics, usually with Arabic calligraphy and quotes from the Quran.
The style of the riad has changed over the years, but the basic shape of the building remains the same. Today there is a resurgence of interest in this form of home, especially after most of the old buildings in Marrakech and Essaouira have been restored.
Riads in general are very common in Marrakech, as well as throughout Morocco (there are about 4,000 in total), and they are located in medina or old urban centers. Usually they are fenced in with a wall and oriented to the center - to the inner courtyard, which allows families to feel protected from prying eyes and cold or heat. For example, inside a riad in Marrakech in summer the temperature can only be 25C, while outside the riad the temperature can exceed 50C!
Entering a riad is a unique experience. Riads are conducive to reflection and relaxation. All rooms in RIADA are open to a central atrium, which usually contains a garden (especially in Marrakech) with four orange or lemon trees and sometimes a fountain.
The walls of the riads are usually very thick, hand-finished with tadelakt, and the floor is usually covered with blue glazed zellige or other types of clay, such as bezhmat.
Galleries with arches, as a rule, are decorated with numerous decorative elements and serve as a real example of architecture. But, in addition to their architectural and decorative function, they serve as a double screen for the sun's rays, giving coolness and shade to the inhabitants of the riad - here guests are served mint tea with sweets throughout the day.
In today's Morocco, a lot of housing is being built, everything is the same type - four-story cinder block houses with a small, but inner courtyard-well. Driving along the highway, I saw plots prepared for construction - rows of small bedside tables neatly grow on wastelands, at first I took them for tombstones. In fact, these are communications leads - in each bedside table there is an electric cable and sewer and water pipes. I have not seen a centralized gas supply here, all have cylinders.
Like everything on this beautiful land, if the bedside table is well watered and looked after, it grows into a full-fledged house - and houses are built here without any breaks, wall to wall, leaving only narrow streets - passages over which balconies hang. There are almost always bars on the windows, on the balconies there are high blank railings - I still did not understand why there are bars on the fourth floor, perhaps so that children would not fall out of the windows. The ground floor usually houses some kind of shop or workshop, residential ground floors in the city are rare. On the second and third, there is a kitchen and several large rooms with a TV, where the whole family dines, while benches with soft seats, such as our banquets, will certainly stand along the walls. On the fourth floor, on the same banquettes, the whole family sleeps, it happens that the head of the family has a separate room with a huge bed, where he sleeps with his wife, sometimes with the youngest child. Guests are placed on the same banquets, in any case, all three nights on the list in Moroccan houses I slept on such a bench.
But I have not met the female and male halves, it is convenient - you don't have to be separated from your fellow traveler, everyone sleeps nearby.
Outwardly, the houses can be almost the same, but inside they are arranged differently - sometimes it is something like a townhouse, when one family owns all the floors of the house, from the first to the last. There is also an option with apartments, inside the house there is an entrance and from it the entrance to different apartments, as we are used to in Russia. For example, a house for everyone is located in just such an apartment on the fifth floor. A feature of our house is the normal wide staircases at the entrance, in townhouses, because of the economy of space, they usually make the stairs narrow, such that you cannot climb with a backpack on your shoulders. 
The roofs are everywhere flat, covered with tiles and high blank walls. As a rule, the roof is used for drying clothes, sometimes meat or tajin is cooked there on coals - but this is not every day, but for the holidays. And of course, there will be a satellite dish on the roof - even in the shacks made of sticks and rags there is a TV in the desert, this is a must. When you look at Moroccan cities from above, you see a sea of \u200b\u200brooftops bristling with satellite dishes, thousands of dishes, all the way to the horizon. But not everyone has air conditioning, only in good European regions - TV is more important than coolness.
The house has a wonderful roof for everyone - there you can get a haircut, watch the moon, clouds and planes landing, look at the city and think about the future. Other residents of the entrance to the roof rarely go out, mainly during the day - to hang clothes, or at night - to smoke. It is a pity that they still go out, otherwise it would be great to sunbathe or sleep on the roof, under the stars - but I forbid it so as not to shock the neighbors. And from the roof of the house everyone can clearly see the mountains, one can think how cold and beautiful it is now and how some climbers trample snow on the way to the top.
There is no centralized hot water anywhere in Morocco, but many have gas water heaters, a cylinder is connected to them and you can enjoy hot water. It is a pity that there is no such device in our house, we have to wait until someone is invited to visit or to wash cold.
For all the time in Morocco, I have never seen a toilet like a "toilet" in the form of a pit and a booth standing above it. In cities and towns, every house has a sewage system, in the village and in the desert - they shit around and bury them in the sand.
The original house I saw in a small fishing village on the Atlantic coast - the house was built on a limestone cliff on the coastal cliff, one room was scraped into the rock, as in Cappadocia, and the living room and terrace were built in the usual way, from cinder blocks. There is a well inside the house, also drilled in limestone - the water can be raised without leaving the kitchen. Electricity from solar panels, in general solar panels are popular in the desert and in villages, central electricity is not available everywhere. But in some resort towns there are houses painted on the outside - this is very pleasing to the eye in the midst of one-color brown gloom.
In general, it is cheap to build here: the foundation does not need to be buried, the earth does not freeze. The base is stones and gravel, rake and put the house directly on the ground. Communication can be done outside, because, again, water does not freeze. Heating is not needed when it's cool - they use blankets, for the same reason, walls are made 15 centimeters thick from leaky cinder blocks, you can kick such a wall with a kick. In some places there are houses made of clay, non-hollow bricks, but this is already history - this is how Kasbah fortresses and fortified houses were built in the past, now cinder blocks rule the ball everywhere. Wood is used minimally, only for floor beams, the floors are always earthen or concrete, tiled. In general, Moroccan houses remind us of a bathroom or a bath - there is solid tiles everywhere.
In the House for everyone, the decoration is standard - a tiled floor, painted walls made of thin cinder blocks, if you want to drive in a nail, you will ruin the wall. Life happens on the floor - a table made of cardboard, a bed made of cardboard, some designers have a designer table from a basin. Various propaganda materials are fixed on the walls with the help of scotch tape: the laws of the House for All - about cleanliness, pious behavior, house rules for everyone.
Since not everyone reads the laws, the main thoughts are repeated on the tablets drawn by famous artists who visited the House - about the inadmissibility of going out into the street naked, about the need to throw paper into a bag, and not into the toilet, about the need to replenish stocks. But there are just pictures for the soul - a photo exhibition of the Lithuanian citizen Alex Kirichenko, designed by Albina, stretches across a whole wall - photographs in original hand-drawn frames, with quotes from Vizbor and other bards. 
Another wall is a cartographic one, there is a large map of Morocco, a five-kilometer-long route of Marrakech's environs, a scheme for climbing the tubkal, two maps of the city of Marrakesh - local production, and a meter by meter google map printout, with all the lanes. There is always a party near the maps: someone tells where he went, someone plans a trip.
On the window in the girls' room various little things are dried - socks and so on. I think this grille decoration pleases our neighbors. In general, from the window of the women's room, the mountains are best seen, from ours it is worse.
And more and more often I think about my house in Saltykovka, unfinished business and friends and daughter left in Moscow - it's time to get home, 11 days left in Africa ..
Alluring, mysterious, unique Moroccan style in architecture, landscape design, interior creates a very special atmosphere. Getting into a house made in this style, you seem to be transported into an oriental fairy tale, touching the historical secrets of Africa of the past centuries.
In the Moroccan style, the traditions of the art of Phenicia and Mauritania, Africa and France, Greece and Spain, various accessories of other countries are surprisingly intertwined. The brightest colors, intricate ornaments and carved details are concentrated in this style. Moreover, over time, the Moroccan direction continues to develop, replenishing its potential with new trends in design art.
Exterior and landscape
The architectural features for the Moroccan style are numerous arched openings of both simple and fanciful forms, galleries and colonnades, balconies and terraces. The adjacent plot to the house imitates the landscape of the subtropical climate of a southern country, i.e. cacti, aloe and kalanchoe bushes, vines and palms will be appropriate:
The pedestrian part of the yard is usually laid out with paving stones or paving slabs:
As building and finishing materials for the decoration of the facade of the house, as in all ethnic styles, tiles, stone, clay, metal are used here:
No Moroccan home is complete without patios. It is an ancient tradition of Moroccan architecture. The floor is necessarily tiled, and ceramic floor vases are placed throughout the courtyard. Cozy and comfortable furniture, an open hearth and ponds with fountains invite you to relax in the following patios:
Interior features
Since the Moroccan style initially presupposes a mixture of other directions, designers, equipping the interior of the house in this ethnic vein, boldly combine ancient folk traditions and modern European features. This allows you to create a versatile, comfortable and extravagant interior in one room.
The living room can coexist with traditional style features (mosaic floors, walls, marble details) and modern comfortable furniture:
Another indispensable condition for Moroccans in the house is carpets with the most incredible patterns, bright colors. Carpets are used to decorate the floor in the living room, dining room and bedroom:
Color palette
The color scheme of a mansion in Morocco can be described as an extravaganza of bright saturated colors. The main colors are blue, cyan, turquoise. Lilac, purple, red and their shades are often found in interiors:
Yellow, golden, orange, terracotta, brown are used as typical colors of the African desert:
White is given great importance as a symbol of purity and longevity. Walls and ceilings or furniture can be white:
Decoration Materials
In addition to traditional stone and ceramic tiles, for decorating the walls of the interior of the room, various types of textured plaster with a granular or smooth texture are excellent:
Mosaic tiles, wood and forged elements are perfectly combined in one room:
The abundance of carved wood and forged elements distinguishes the Moroccan style from other African trends. The curly balustrades that enclose the balcony and spiral staircase inside the house look spectacular:
Furniture
Traditional Moroccan-style lounge furniture is wooden, with elaborate carvings, no sharp corners. Upholstery in soft fabric, mainly velvet or satin:
It should be noted that the Moroccan style is subdivided into lush, luxurious ("palace") and simple, laconic (rustic). In one house, pieces of furniture of both these directions can harmoniously coexist. For example, in the kitchen, wooden chests of drawers, islands and buffets with a brush effect look great:
And in the dining room, expensive marble or granite furnishings, furniture made from expensive woods contrast effectively with the rough wooden floor.